Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith | ||||
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Studio album by Roland Kirk | ||||
Released | June 1967 (1967-06) | |||
Recorded | May 2, 1967 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 32:12 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Creed Taylor | |||
Roland Kirk chronology | ||||
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Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith is an album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on the Verve label in 1967. It contains performances by Kirk with Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Boykins and Grady Tate.[3]
Reception
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (about Kirk's wife) was the first of his all groove sides.... This was the beginning of the exploration that led listeners to Blacknuss and Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real, and it is worth every bit as those two recordings".[1] Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the CD reissue of the album, combined with the album Rip, Rig and Panic, with the second-highest grade in their Penguin Guide to Jazz, and named the reissue as part of their suggested “core collection” of essential recordings.[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Roland Kirk except as noted
- "Blue Rol" - 6:09
- "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 2:52
- "Why Don't They Know" - 2:54
- "Silverlization" - 4:57
- "Fall Out" - 3:01
- "Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" - 4:23
- "Stompin' Grounds" - 4:46
- "It's a Grand Night for Swinging" (Billy Taylor) - 3:10
Personnel
- Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute
- Lonnie Liston Smith: piano
- Ronnie Boykins: bass
- Grady Tate: drums
References
- ^ a b AllMusic Review
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 828. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 11 August 2009
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- Triple Threat (1957)
- Introducing Roland Kirk (1960)
- Kirk's Work (1961)
- We Free Kings (1962)
- Domino (1962)
- Reeds & Deeds (1963)
- The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (1963)
- Gifts & Messages (1964)
- I Talk with the Spirits (1964)
- Slightly Latin (1965)
- Rip, Rig and Panic (1965)
- Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1967)
- The Inflated Tear (1967)
- Left & Right (1968)
- Volunteered Slavery (1969)
- Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971)
- Blacknuss (1972)
- A Meeting of the Times (1972)
- Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle (1973)
- The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (1975)
- Other Folks' Music (1976)
- The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man (1976)
- Kirkatron (1977)
- Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real (1977)
- Kirk in Copenhagen (1964)
- Here Comes the Whistleman (1965)
- Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970)
- Bright Moments (1973)
- I, Eye, Aye: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972 (1996)
- Brotherman in the Fatherland (2006)
- Dog Years in the Fourth Ring (1997)